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CUSTOMER
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Irregular inflected form: customer
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who pays for goods or services
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("customer" is a kind of...):
consumer (a person who uses goods or services)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "customer"):
buyer; emptor; purchaser; vendee (a person who buys)
guest (a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.)
frequenter; patron (a regular customer)
policyholder (a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written)
shopper (someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy)
disburser; expender; spender (someone who spends money to purchase goods or services)
reader; subscriber (someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication)
taker (one who accepts an offer)
warrantee (a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given)
john; trick; whoremaster; whoremonger (a prostitute's customer)
Holonyms ("customer" is a member of...):
business relation (a relation between different business enterprises)
Context examples:
It was a likely place to sell a jacket in; for the dealers in second-hand clothes were numerous, and were, generally speaking, on the look-out for customers at their shop doors.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It’s the business that does it, what with loflin’ about behind the bar all day, and bein’ afraid to refuse a wet for fear of offendin’ a customer.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The assumption behind such measures is that providing customers with clearer information on the energy content of food served will allow them to make more informed, and hence ‘better’, choices.
(Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food, University of Cambridge)
Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When I returned to London I called upon the milliner, who had recognised Straker as an excellent customer of the name of Derbyshire, who had a very dashing wife, with a strong partiality for expensive dresses.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Supermarket checkouts provide a unique location for prompting purchases as all customers have to pass through them to pay and may spend considerable time in queues; however, the majority of food at supermarket checkouts could be considered unhealthy.
(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)
Thermal paper receipts are easily identified by the customer since they are those receipts that, after some time, lose what they have printed on them and, when you are going to return the trousers you bought, the cashiers tell you that they cannot see anything.
(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)
Protect client and customer privacy by asking IT if they have inserted the most up-to-date software and malware protection to prevent hacking.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
